When Reza was a child his first grade teacher noticed his ability to draw. She encouraged him and instilled confidence in him by praising his work and displaying it in the hallways outside the classroom for other kids to see which made him proud and happy. Those drawings were usually a house, a running river with a dog and a stick figure person. Similar to his current style! His parents kept buying him drawing pads, magic markers and colored pencils and to impress them he would arrange them in order, from the brightest to the darker shades and show it to them. Little that he knew he had most of the colors in the wrong order. His mom noticed the problem and took him to an Optometrist where he could be tested. The test consisted of showing a pattern made up of multi-colored dots on a page. If one does not have a color deficiency, they will be able to see numbers and shapes amongst the dots. If color blind, one will have a hard time finding the number or shape in the pattern or may not see anything in the pattern at all. He had a hard time seeing any numbers or shapes and was diagnosed with what's called Red-Green color blindness. The doctor told him he can be anything he wants to be except a pilot because he may land the plane in the ocean instead of the runway! That was never a problem because he never wanted to become a pilot but he always liked to draw and later started to paint.Well, till this day his colorblindness has not hindered his art-making process. He even gets compliments on his color choices. While color-blindness has been constant, his process of image-making changed with time. His subject matter is always evolving but what remains steady in "Random Thoughts" is his inherent interest in human emotion; in humor, fantasy, tragedy, pop culture and basically everyday events. He tells stories with his dark, yet whimsical and alien-like creatures. Stories of love, loss, nostalgia, passage of time and hope. He realizes some images can be a bit macabre and scary, but hopes to leave the viewer with a smile through the sarcasm and twisted humor usually within the same painting.A favorite among Hollywood studio’s, His style of painting lands somewhere amidst outsider, pop, folk, urban, art-brut, contemporary and modern art. Reza’s works have appeared in several television shows, hung permanently at the UCLA Medical center and selected as poster for The Tiburon International Film Festival, and collected by a dedicated group of followers.